Economy Needs a Buff

[Riku_Toiiku]

Making gil is easy in your case...

Yeah, I've found some items now that get me a minor income, but that's not really what I was focusing my first post on... it was the fact that crafting was what made me lose so much.

Crafting in a game is supposed to be the most fruitful generation of currency, followed by the suppliers of the craft (less profit but don't have to spend money to make money), and finally killing stuff, which should still get you enough income to be in the positive. Right now, crafting is broken, because you're only going to get gil from a select few items. You can't make a major income from crafting until you hit 50 and can make stuff that's only available from other crafters, or supply people for their relic quests...

[bwalker36]

Yeah, I've found some items now that get me a minor income, but that's not really what I was focusing my first post on... it was the fact that crafting was what made me lose so much.

Crafting in a game is supposed to be the most fruitful generation of currency, followed by the suppliers of the craft (less profit but don't have to spend money to make money), and finally killing stuff, which should still get you enough income to be in the positive. Right now, crafting is broken, because you're only going to get

Leveling crafting while buying your mats (I'm assuming you did this since there is no way to spend that gild unless you do) was never profitable in any game that I have played. Once your max you should be able to easily hq items and make some of the gil back but but powerleveling is a mistake in this game with no easy gil generation. Materia melding is your best bet depending on your craft.